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  1. "You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment." James Gleick
  2. "Before great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant man begins something great, he must look foolish in the crowd." I Ching
  3. Speaking Tonight at SFBAY ACM in Cupertino 6:30pm on "The Limits of I'll Know It When I See It." See http:/www.sfbayacm.org
  4. "Remember. But move forward, too. Light a candle, yes. But also drive a rivet." James Lileks looking back on 9/11 in 2004
  5. "I can look at a problem, figure out approximately what is wrong, and do rapid research for usable information." Justin James
  6. "The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." Oliver Wendell Holmes
  7. "We're now on the verge of a Sesame Street recovery: economists aren't sure if it will be brought to us by the letter V, U, or W." Bob Lewis
  8. "I don't need time. What I need is a deadline." Duke Ellington
  9. "If they give you lined paper, write the other way." e e cummings
  10. "Using empowerment, dialog, or engagement as a fig leaf for traditional marketing really, truly, deeply pisses people off." Marc Danziger
  11. "Real-life networks are often very different from the ideal ones pictured in economics textbooks: exploit irregularities." Chris Dixon
  12. "....as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents." Arthur Schopenhauer
  13. “Genius is born from a thousand failures. Constant, continuous, ubiquitous experimentation is the most important thing.” Greg Linden
  14. "Even those who learn from history are surrounded by those doomed to repeat it." blogger Thomas Crown (pseudonym)
  15. @ericries primarily a round table conversation about real attendee issues, worry (published) recording inhibits; will post summary in blog
  16. "True learning involves figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think." Jerome Bruner
  17. "People will abuse any unmanaged network to promote their financial livelihood." Jason Moncur on "Social Media"
  18. "All Successful Systems Attract Parasites" Tom Ray quoted in "Out of Control" http://bit.ly/lU6x5
  19. "Expectations create blind spots which conceal small errors that are growing and delay recognition of unexpected threats." Karl Weick
  20. Unfortunately typical startup pitch "I am from the future and things work better there: abandon your ignorance and embrace what's coming."